According to a new study from market research firm NPD, 12 percent of all U.S. households own a Mac. That’s a pretty big increase for Apple, moving up 3 percent from the 9 percent of U.S. households reported for Apple in 2008. Here’s another interesting statistic that came from the report: of those 12 percent, almost 85 percent also own a Windows-based PC.

In fact, 66 percent of Apple households report owning three or more computers. Only 29 percent of Windows-based households own three or more computers, according to NPD.

The discrepancies aren’t limited to desktop machines. According to the report, 72 percent of Apple households own a notebook, while only 50 percent of Windows households own a portable computer.

Moving away from computers, NPD says 63 percent of Apple households own an iPod, while only 36 percent of all computer owning households report owning one. The same holds true for navigation systems, as well — 50 percent of Apple owners have some type of navigation system, compared to 30 percent of all computer households.

According to Baker, the average Apple household owns 48 consumer electronic devices, compared to 24 for the average consumer household.

SteveS

While it’s nice to see the percentage of Mac households increase, the rest of the statistics shouldn’t be surprising. Previous studies have indicated that statistically, Mac households were better educated and have higher incomes. Anecdotally, in the recent two to three years, I’ve had more “newbies” to the Mac platform approach me for assistance / advice then in all of the previous years combined.

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“of those 12 percent, almost 85 percent also own a Windows-based PC.”

Does that include people running Windows on their Macs?

Jim Dalrymple

Based on the research, I would say no. They are counting physical machines.

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Lotta new Mac users then (as we’ve been hearing)

Side note: Nice to see your stories still being published on Macworld http://bit.ly/10Jno4 …that “hat tip” is probably just as good as an IOU.

Jim Dalrymple

LOL — they’ve been good about doing that.

Ryan VanNote

I can tell you that for me, the chicken came with the egg. When I logged on to apple.com and bought my first Apple computer, a MacBook Pro, a little more then 2 years ago, I got a free iPod nano with a rebate.